Governments lead 50-strong speaker agenda at Africa Energies Summit

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London, 24th March 2022

Frontier Energy Network, the energy industry’s leading forum for collaboration and deal making, has offered a first glimpse of the stellar line up at its renowned Africa Energies Summit.

Set to take place in London and online 17 – 19 May, the Summit’s first-look agenda is headlined by no less than ten African governments, supported by eight ministries and a host of leading players in the African and international energy markets, from Africa Oil Corp and ReconAfrica, to TotalEnergies and Perenco. 

The three-day agenda - which includes presentations from some of Africa’s most nimble and respected energy explorers and producers, senior round-table discussions and the opportunity to network with those most active in the region’s industry - lists 50+ speakers so far, with more speakers and governments set to be announced in the coming weeks.


Gayle Meikle, Frontier Energy Network CEO, comments:

“Energy security is the biggest challenge facing the African Continent and it is more important than ever for African leaders and energy companies to engage to build a path of prosperity through energy for Africa. The Summit’s line up so far is a succinct reflection of our aim to facilitate that, by producing a genuinely worthwhile, high value event, where governments, regulators, international energy companies, investors and international development partners can congregate to learn and debate, whilst making the connections and deals that are fundamental to the region’s success.” 

Believing that the energy industry has a responsibility to give back to the communities in which it operates, the Summit will support Gogo Olive, a Zimbabwean charity working to change the lives of women and children through employment, and the Tikki Hywood Foundation, active in West and Southern Africa, which works to protect the highly-endangered pangolin.

Africa Energies Summit 
(as of 23/03/22)

Participating Governments 2022

• Angola

• Congo

• Gabon

• Liberia

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Republic of Ghana

• Federal Republic of Somalia

• The Gambia

• Zimbabwe

Confirmed Speakers 2022 

• Hon. Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister for Energy, Republic of Ghana

• Hon. Fafa Sanyang, Minister of Energy & Petroleum, Republic of The Gambia

• Hon. Minister Soda, Minister of Mines & Power Development, Republic of Zimbabwe

• Paulino Jeronimo, President, ANPG

• Saifuah Mai Gray, President/CEO, National Oil Company of Liberia

• Mohamed Hashi Arabey Abdi, Director General, Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Federal Republic of Somalia

• Augusto Macuvele, Executive Board Member – Exploration, Instituto Nacional De Petroleo, Mozambique

• Yann Pierre Yangari, Head of Gas Taskforce, Conseil National a du Plan d’Accéleration de la Transformation, Présidence de la République Gabonaise

• Jerreh Barrow, Petroleum Commissioner, Ministry of Petroleum & Energy, The Gambia

• Maggy Shino, Petroleum Commissioner, Ministry of Mines & Energy, Namibia

• Nangula Nelulu Uaandja, CEO, Namibia Investment, Promotion & Development Board

• Mohamed Zine, Director: Promotion and Hydrocarbon Asset Management, ONHYM

• Immanuel Mulunga, Managing Director, NAMCOR

• Benjamin Mee, Regional VP Exploration, Shell

• Luca Vignati, Head of Sub Saharan Africa Region, Eni

• Wallace Pescarini, President, Schlumberger

• Rahul Dhir, CEO, Tullow Oil

• Keith Hill, President and CEO, Africa Oil Corp.

• Benoît de la Fouchardiere, Group General Manager, Perenco

• Ignacio de Calonje, Chief Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation

• Tracey Henderson, Chief Exploration Officer, Apache Corporation

• Thomas Perkins, Director, Stellar Energy Advisors

• Adonis Pouroulis, CEO, Chariot

• Marcel Alonso, Multiclient New Ventures – Africa, Schlumberger

• Cany Jobe, Director of E&P, Gambia National Petroleum Corporation

• Scot Evans, CEO, ReconAfrica

• Roland Muggli, Africa Director Upstream, Galp Energia

• Ade Adeola, Head of Oil & Gas, Standard Chartered Bank

• Kathy Khuu, Head of Responsible Business, Policy & Advocacy, Shell International BV

• William Ashby, Executive VP – Eastern Hemisphere, TGS

• Simon Hodson, CEO, Gridworks Development Partners

• Fred Weltge, UK Economics Team Lead, GaffneyCline

• Shakwa Nyambe, Managing Partner & Founder, SNC

• Gayle Meikle, CEO, Frontier Energy Network

• Eric Hathon, Exploration Director, Capricorn Energy

• Mohammed Usman Abdul-Razaq, VP Financial Advisory, Africa Finance Corporation

• Katherine Roe, CEO, Wentworth Resources

• William Gordon Canning, Exploration Area Manager, South & East Africa, TotalEnergies

• Vivek Mittal, CEO, Africa Infrastructure Development Association (AfiDA)

• Jason Robinson, Director of Business Development – Africa, Mediterranean & Middle East, TGS

• Scott Macmillan, Managing Director, Invictus Energy

• Dele Kuti, Global Head, Oil & Gas – Corporate & Investment Banking, Standard Bank Group

• Elthon Chemane, Founder of Mozambican Local Content Platform, Executive President Algeria-Mozambique Business Commission, Special Advisor to Government of Cabo Delgado – Mozambique

• Peter Elliot, Director, NVentures

• Daniel Davidson, COO, Frontier Energy Network

• Mohammed Seghiri, COO, Sound Energy

• Duncan Wallace, Technical Director, Chariot

• Francis Ghilès, Senor Research Fellow, CIDOB Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

• Javier Martin, Senior Geoscientist, CGG

• Paul McDade, CEO, Afentra

• David Lecoque, CEO, Alliance for Rural Electrification

• Valerie Marcel, Associate Fellow & Co-Founder, Project Lead for New Producers Group, Chatham House

• Jozsef Marton, Managing Director, Preng & Associates

• Paul Freeman, VP Global Exploration New Ventures, CNOOC International

• Holger Rothenbusch, MD Infrastructure & Climate, CDC Group

• Tony Bheki Moyo, Head of Sales, Frontier Energy Network

• Peter Elliott, Director, NVentures

• Nathan Oliver, Executive Vice President, Sales and Imaging, PGS

Sponsors & Exhibitors 2022

We would like to sincerely thank our Africa Energies Summit 2022 Partners

• Gold: TotalEnergies, Africa Oil Corporation, Perenco

• Silver: TGS, CGG and ReconAFRICA

• Bronze: Wentworth Resources, Invictus Energy, GaffneyCline, PGS, Chariot Transitional Energy, Capricorn, Preng & Associates, Mazarine Energy

• Lunch Sponsor: Stellar Energy Advisors

• Contributing Sponsors: Apache, Glencore, Evercore

• Exhibitors: Africa Oil Corp., TGS, CGG, ReconAFRICA, Wentworth Resources, Invictus Energy, GaffneyCline, Chariot Transitional Energy, Preng & Associates, Mazarine Energy, SNC Incorporated, EXCEED Energy, Core Laboratories

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